Motivational Quotes

Joy

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

- Edward Chapin

Best Quotes about Joy

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.